Comments on: Productive Unit Structures: Introducing Freedom

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:19:29 +0000

Fred,

Thanks for your suggestions and for the great idea for a program. I’m running Office 2004, so I don’t think the Office 2008 is the problem with the crash/freeze. Maybe I’ll try disabling the sleep/energy saving feature when using Freedom…?

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:04:04 +0000

Hi.

Great program!

I would like to follow up on a request made earlier, but that I can not see any replies to from you, Fred.

The request is to make it possible to time schedule periods where internet is of. It could maybe also be a good idea to be able to make different profiles as well, so on could choose one for each day or week.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:25:30 +0000

Can you please, please, PLEASE develop a version of this for PCs?

By: fred

fred — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:55:49 +0000

It is likely that applications are trying to access the network and not handling that failure gracefully. There’s not a lot that can be done about that. And if you’ve got any network drives mounted, this may also cause problems.

I have a theory that Office 2008 is using the internet a lot. That’s a program I’ve heard a lot of bug reports about. I use Office X and Freedom works perfectly for me. I’m not sure there’s a lot I can do about Office issues.

With regards to slow programs, Freedom’s memory and processor footprint is about as small as any program could be.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:09:00 +0000

Actually, the phenomenon (stuck with the spinning ball) is most prominent when the computer sleeps. That is, if I stop working long enough for the screen to sleep, when I return and hit a button to wake it up, all I get is stuck with the spinning ball–the screen is still black and the little ball spins. Ultimately, I have to reboot to get out…

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:26:40 +0000

This program is brilliant, but has anyone else had a problem with everything running slowly while Freedom is operating? I’ve got a 250gig hard drive that is only 1/4 full, and 2gigs of RAM, but I often find myself dealing with slow programs, caught in the ’spinning ball.’ I do tend to have multiple programs up while working (Word, Excel, Dreamweaver, etc.). Any suggestions? Anyone else experiencing this? Overall, a great program!

By: Deb Chasteen

Deb Chasteen — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:23:17 +0000

Oh, I do hope that you will be able to introduce this for PCs. I certainly need it. Any plans to do so? Best wishes to you—

By: fred

fred — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:45:35 +0000

I dunno. If iTunes is trying to do something over the net, then it might run into problems. Don’t know why itunes is accessing the net when you delete a file, tho.

By: Noam

Noam — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:14:00 +0000

I’m also having some freezing problems. Twice I’ve tried to delete songs from itunes while using Freedom and each time iTunes froze and then slowly other things froze as well. Anyone know how to do anything about this?

(That being said, thanks Fred! This is fantastic.)

By: fred

fred — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:04:30 +0000

Freezing issues: Please make sure that is not just Freedom that is “frozen”, but all applications. Click on your dock and see if you can open other programs. Freedom appears unresponsive on purpose.

Another note. If you are mounting any sort of network drives to your computer, Freedom will block this. This may cause freezing issues. If you mount network drives, Freedom is not the right choice for you.